Died in jail or a lockup
Jesse McCracken
Jesse McCracken, a Black man, was held in the jail in Cartersville, Georgia, in February 1916. According to the Laredo Weekly Times, a mob of about forty men took him from the jail and hanged him in front of the city hall, and the article says his body was riddled with bullets.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched